News 2009 December 15

St. Petersburg and Vyborg customs posts in the I quarter of 2010 to start a promising experiment: customs procedure via Internet

Antimonopoly committee of Ukraine sued Ministry of Transport and Communications upon anticompetitive actions concerning OJSC SP Nibulon

Cargo throughput via Singapore in January-November 2009 falls 10% - to 430,9 million tons

Singapore's container throughput up 1.7% to 2.33 million TEUs in November

Shanghai to build free port by 2020

LIC sells over 2% in Bharati Shipyard

TUI AG expects to return to growth in 2010/11

Transshipment of Russian export oil through Primorsk port increases by 3.6 times - to 3.9 million tons

Cosco Holdings expects net loss for 2009

Hamburg Sud prefer Tilbury to Felixstowe on UKEI service

Strategy for transportation and logistics complex of St. Petersburg to be discussed at the meeting on December 16, 2009 at the Smolny

Vladivostok commercial port pays dividends for 2008, 328 million rubles

STS/RLS Logistics completes delivery and installation of equipment for Sredneuralsk HPP

Throughput of port in Astrakhan is expected to be up 39.6 % to 4.24 million tons in 2009

Rough sea causes wreckage of hydro-technical structures at the port of Sochi

Construction of the railway for Ikabekan-Tarynnahsky Mining and Processing Plant (MPP) of East-Siberian Railway to begin in 2011

FTS indexes tariffs at 9,4% for rail freight for next year

Turnover of the port of Riga (Latvia) in January-November 2009 is down 1.3% - to 27.2 million tons

Possible fees cuts by rail-ferry transportation operators on ferry line Baltiysk-Sassnitz

Russian Antimonopoly Service examines the state of competition in the market providing services for the transportation of cargoes in the direction of "Ust-Luga - Baltiisk"

State-run "Delta-pilot" of Ukraine has passed an audit in accordance with IFRS

Glencore buys 51 percent stake in Chemoil

Hyundai Merchant Marine increases China to India rates from December 24

Oil price up to $71.89 (+0.01) in London, down to $69.51 (-0,36) in New York

Daewoo Shipbuilding to sign $1 billion deal with Petrobras

DP World to open India's Vallarpadam terminal by April

Port of Los Angeles cuts terminal rents for container terminal operators

MOL hikes reefer rates on its U.S, Canada to Asia services